The Essence of Sunyoga

I began reading The Essence of Sun Yoga by Sunyogi Umasankar. In the preface the author admits that the book contains only a few drops of the nectar of sun yoga, amounting to about 10%, that he intentionally left out 40%, and that 50% is inexpressible in words. However, those few drops of nectar are more than enough to satisfy a seeker. The author also acknowledges Sri Mahaavatar Babaji as his teacher of sun yoga when he spent two years in the Himalayas from 2007 to 2009. Babaji also taught sun yoga to Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov and HRM.

This brief blog post is probably less than 10% of the 10%, but it would probably take 10 blog posts to do a decent review of this book. I suggest that everyone get a copy. The author first describes three meditation practices that prepare a sunyogi for sungazing: photo meditation, eye-to-eye meditation, and meditation on the light. Before any of the meditations and before sungazing, you ask six questions without any expectation of receiving answers. They are: Who am I? What do I want? Why do I want to do it? What is the purpose of this life? What is the connection between what I am doing and what I want? What do I seek? Not having any expectations seems to be a key. For example, in the meditation on the light, don't expect it to get bigger.

In photo meditation, you gaze at a 10"x12" photo of your face, focusing on the eyes. This connects the sunyogi with the power of the Atma (soul), for the eyes are the windows of the soul. The author explains why a photo is better than gazing at your reflection in a mirror, something about eye movements breaking your concentration. At a certain point, you will begin to see a bright point of light, at which point, you can move on to meditation on the light. An alternative to the photo meditation is meditating on the eyes of a loved one such as a spouse, parent, or child. Again, when you see the light, you can stop this form of meditation. In meditating on the light, you focus on any point till you see the light. The light will become larger and brighter till it surrounds you and you see a divine form, which is Brahma or God inside you.

Then you are ready to sungaze. Sounds amazing, but that's what he wrote. In sungazing, he advises not to look directly at the sun at first but to angle (30-45 degrees) the eyes up to focus on the third eye chakra between the eyes and gaze at the sun through the third eye. Then gaze at a point 2 inches above the sun. When comfortable, lower the eyes to the level of the sun and gaze for 30 minutes. After sungazing, close your eyes tightly three or four times and relax slowly, Afterwards, with eyes still closed and focusing on your third eye, you will be able to see the bright light of God within you. You should also rub your palms together till they're hot and put them over your eyes till the warmth is gone, then massage your eyelids with your fingers clockwise. Finally, you lie down and do a progressive relaxation of your body from your toes to the top of your head.

I have seen a bright light before during meditation and suspected that it was God, but it has never expanded to the extent that I could see a form. Also, every time I sungaze, I see several bright lights in a constellation that looks exactly like the Pleiades. Also the brightest point of light is in the position of Alcyone, which is the brightest star of the Pleiades. What this means is not explained in the book, although he does have a chapter on stars, galaxies, and the black hole of the universe and their relationship to sun yoga. I suspect that what I am seeing is a star map in my third eye to guide my soul when, at the point of death, it leaves my body to return to heaven, which some claim to be Alcyone.

There is much more in this book: chapters on the chakras (more than the seven main ones), a chapter on the benefits of sun yoga (such as wisdom and longevity), higher states of sun yoga, linking with the universe, and world peace. But I will leave them for you to discover.

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Gene Savoy and Project X: The Search for the Secrets of Immortality

Anyone who has researched sungazing to some extent will have come across Gene Savoy and his solar religion, Church of the Second Advent, and solar science, cosolargy. He studied ancient sungazing societies, mainly the Incas of Peru, but also the Mayans and Essenes, and discovered secrets of how they were able to commune with solar beings and prolong life. The latter secrets were the focus of Savoy's book, Project X: The Search for the Secrets of Immortality. Although he does not directly divulge any of the secrets in this book, he does give hints, such as gazing at the sun at high noon through crystals, something which I don't recommend, and he reveals some of the results of the experimentation by members of Project X. For example, some middle-age women in Project X experienced signs of reversed aging such as their hair changing from gray to their original color and beginning menstruation again.

Savoy wasn't after physical immortality. He died in 2007, so he didn't discover the secrets of that. However, as he stated in the book, "The secrets of immortality, it was becoming all too apparent, would be found in my emerging new faculties of light generated by solar techniques and not in any physical attributes.... An energy body could not die as long as there was light.... Why couldn't man generate a higher light form that was immortal? The first step would be to discover the key of doing away with the physical attributes right from the start. Why did birth have to take place in physical form? Why not as a light or solar being? That should be the goal of man on our planet: to ascend to the sun and the stars."

Hopefully, Savoy attained this goal, ascended to the sun and beyond, and is now an immortal being of light. That certainly is my goal, and should be the goal of every man and woman. The question Savoy posed of why we are reborn in a physical body instead of a light body is the age-old question that has been answered by sages. To put it in one word -- karma. Karma is made in the physical plane and can only be balanced in the physical. If you don't make reparations for all wrong you have done in this life before you die, you will have to be reborn in the physical so you can finish balancing your karma. When you succeed in doing this, then you can be reborn in a light body. It's possible to begin building a light body now so that when you balance all your karma, you can just transfer your consciousness from your physical body to your light body. Some yogis are able to do this after going into meditation. It's called "dropping the body."

This light-body has been called by different names by different masters. Serapis called it “the deathless solar body,” Omraam called it “the body of glory,” Akhenaton called it the Mer-Ka-Ba. During the Middle Ages, the Cathars claimed to possess the secret gospel of Jesus called the Gospel of Love, believed to contain keys for creating the light body. I will be writing about this in my fourth novel of the Sons of the Sun series, The Sun Shines at Midnight.

Omraam and his master Peter Deunov inherited the secret teachings of the Cathars and Bogomils. If you want to find out the real secrets of immortality, read the books that have been compiled from their lectures, available through Prosveta.com and Everabooks.com. And if you want to join a community of lightbearers who are dedicated to creating light bodies through sungazing and other means, visit heartscenter.org.

Welcome to Solrevolution. You can pronounce it as "Solar Evolution" or "Sol Revolution." Both are valid. We have been undergoing a solar evolution for millions of years and we are now undergoing a Sol revolution in consciousness. There have been other Sol revolutions in the past, most notably the solar religion of Atenism in Egypt begun by Akhenaten and Nefertiti with the help of Meryra and Nakhtpaaten, aka Joseph, son of Jacob. I have published a novel about this key point in history, Pharaoh of the Sun: Akhenaten and the Culture of Love. I have blended historical facts, theories, and my imagination into a plausible mystory, as opposed to history (that is, the opinion of an academician about what happened in the past). I think it is as good an explanation of the mystery of Akhenaten and Nefertiti's reign as any. The archeologist Barry Kemp of Cambridge University wrote that so little is known about what actually happened during their reign that "the minute you begin to write about those people you begin to write fiction." Thus, if a historian posits that Akhenaten was a narcissistic ruler who claimed only he and the royal family could worship the Aten and he was the sole mediator and that people had to worship him, that is fiction. In my interpretation, people worshiped the Aten freely in open-court temples. It would have been kind of silly for Akhenaten to construct solar temple several acres in area if he, Nefertiti, and their daughters were the only worshipers.

Pharaoh of the Sun is the first novel in a series of four historical novels in the Sons of the Sun series. It chronicles the solar evolution of mankind over the past 3,300 years through four Sol revolutions: Akhenaten and Atenism, Moses and Essenism, Jesus and early Christianity, and Raymond-Roger and Esclarmonde de Foix and Catharism. There are common threads of brotherly love and solar science that run through all four revolutions and I will also tie them together by having the key characters reincarnate into each story. We are currently in the midst of a fifth Sol revolution, begun by the masters Peter Deunov and Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov at the beginning of the 20th Century. This story is not fiction and I am playing a part in it.

I am excited about the positive response so far to Pharaoh of the Sun and invite you to read the free preview at Amazon or at Smashwords.